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Snuff Box (Tabatière)

1768–69; 1776–78
(French)
France, 18th century
gouache miniatures mounted on gold
Overall: 2.6 x 5.3 cm (1 x 2 1/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1958.123
Location: not on view
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These miniature paintings are mounted à cage, a practice popular in the mid-1700s that involved setting decorated panels into gold frames to create a box’s walls.

Description

Snuff boxes were highly ornamented functional objects popular among French social elites. They were simultaneously containers for powdered tobacco and a means to communicate social and political status. Often decorated with miniature paintings inspired by popular paintings of the time, the works reproduced on this box are modeled after those of Claude-Joseph Vernet (cover and front panel) and David Teniers the Younger (base, side, and back panels).
Snuff Box (Tabatière)

Snuff Box (Tabatière)

1768–69; 1776–78

Pierre-Nicholas Pleyard

(French)
France, 18th century

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